Email Author Adam Cayton-Holland

Awards

• 2009 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published March 6, 2008

  "Stand and Deliver"

• 2009 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published June 19, 2008

  "Curtain Call"

• 2009 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published March 6, 2008

  "Stand and Deliver"

• 2008 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published April 5, 2007

  "An Uphill Battle"

• 2007 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published December 21, 2006

  "Life of the Party"

• 2006 - Bert Greene Award/International Association of Culinary Professionals, published January 27, 2005

  "Word of Mouth"

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2008 Stories by Adam Cayton-Holland

• O holy night! This reverend has a real open-door policy

  published December 25, 2008

  Transubstantiation was what did it for Nate Lappegaard. Raised within the strict dogma of the Catholic Church, Lappegaard was fifteen years old... More >>

• Annabel has gone to the dogs: My little girl is a woman now

  published December 18, 2008

  The whining starts about 5:30 a.m. — a slow, heartbreaking cry from the crate at the foot of my bed that I can usually silence by... More >>

• Writing on the bathroom wall is safer than Craigslist

  published December 11, 2008

  Here's how the state of Colorado defines the act of criminal libel: "A person who shall knowingly publish or disseminate, either by written... More >>

• Spinning in circles

  published December 4, 2008

  I recently Netflixed Apocalypse Now Redux, the extended version of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 masterpiece, and had the following... More >>

• Mytwinnworld.com doubles your purchasing pleasure

  published November 27, 2008

  With a mere 28 shopping days remaining until Christmas, I feel it is my duty to shift away from my regular musings on the state of world... More >>

• Living and loving New Kids on the Block

  published November 20, 2008

  For photos from Adam's reunion with his favorite boy band, go to... More >>

• Troubled teens were banished to the Monarch Center wilderness program. Then their troubles really started

  published November 13, 2008

  He was one of the smartest dumbasses you'll ever meet," Harry Haney says of his son. Chris Haney was an honors student who took all... More >>

• It takes a hero to vote early in Colorado

  published October 30, 2008

  Dollars to doughnuts, you've had a conversation recently about early voting. And doughnuts to police officers, that conversation probably... More >>

• Yes, Sarah Palin is hotter in person — but not hot enough

  published October 23, 2008

  A few weeks ago, my little sister marveled at all the Obama signs around Denver. She grew up here, same exact house as me, literally right... More >>

• Kicking It

  published October 23, 2008

  Although “Kick or Treat” sounds more like a really sweet option for rogue Halloweeners — wherein costumed delinquents are... More >>

• How Adam Cayton-Holland survived a cougar attack!

  published October 16, 2008

  From my many interactions with readers, it's quite clear that I'm a working-class hero. "Let me buy you a drink, What's So Funny," they... More >>

• Adam Cayton-Holland, bagman for the city

  published October 9, 2008

  When I found my house, part of what sold me on the property was the xeriscaping. While the back yard is a fecund mecca of non-nativity,... More >>

• The St. Pauli Girl sucks at beer pong, and that's just fine

  published October 2, 2008

  For a slide show from their romantic night, go to westword.com/slideshow. For... More >>

• Meet Kristi Burton, the 21-year-old pro-lifer behind the Personhood Amendment

  published September 25, 2008

  Pull Kristi Burton's string, and the wind-up doll may say a couple of things. The right of protection for every human being —... More >>

• Every party has a pooper, and I'm the one at Denver's birthday celebration

  published September 18, 2008

  Have you ever actually studied how the city of Denver came to be? It was an accident. And not like a... More >>

• It's Broncos season in Denver, but Funny's transition is Rockie

  published September 11, 2008

  As fall's chill creeps into the air and the leaves linger wistfully on their branches, Colorado's thoughts inevitably turn to football. We are... More >>

• With help from the French, a seasoned drunk makes the case for a lower drinking age

  published September 4, 2008

  The French have a saying that, loosely translated, goes, "The naive and ineffectual rube from Aix-en-Provence who does not learn to swim as a... More >>

• The DNC proves it: Denver loves black people

  published August 28, 2008

  The last time I can recall seeing this city even vaguely like it is right now — mired in a whirlwind of excitement over the Democratic... More >>

• The Flobots rise and shine

  published August 21, 2008

  One-thirty in the afternoon on a blistering Monday in late July, and the Flobots are hardly forming like Voltron. The tour bus was supposed to... More >>

• From drunk boating to blow jobs, it's all in a day's work

  published August 14, 2008

  A job is a job is a job. No matter how cool it is, there will be days when you hate it, guaranteed. Your job could be receiving blow jobs, and... More >>

• For Colorado Rapids fans, it's hard to be hooligans

  published August 7, 2008

  (Read more tales of soccer fanaticism -- including a breakdown of some of the More >>

• Bless This Mess

  published July 31, 2008

  (See Adam Cayton-Holland's "DNC Orientation Video"... More >>

• Lake Woebegone

  published July 17, 2008

  When I was a pup coming up, if you made the East High School Boys' Varsity Soccer Team, you landed in City Park Lake. I do not know if this... More >>

• Sermon on the Mount

  published July 10, 2008

  Every once in a while, you meet a guy who's so annoyingly Colorado that you might as well call him 'Rado. To merely say that this man possesses... More >>

• Friendly Fire

  published July 10, 2008

  In the soccer world, the term “friendly” can be a very deceptive one. It refers to a match with no actual implications, no... More >>